Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could create, modify, or delete files in the security context of the NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM account.
Security updates
14.40.33816 — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170
15.9.67 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releasenotes/vs2017-relnotes
16.11.41 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2019/release-notes-v16.11
17.6.20 — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.8
Visual C++ Redistributable Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Visual C++ Redistributable Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Revision history
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#2
Updated FAQ information. This is an informational change only.
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2024-43590 Visual C++ Redistributable Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-43590
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Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
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Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
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Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss